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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

1008 PM MDT FRI SEP 24 2004



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO



* UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT



* AT 1000 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 

  INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS OVER NORTHERN CHAVES

  COUNTY FROM HIGHWAY 285 EASTWARD TO 15 MILES WEST OF ELKINS. THE

  STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST AT 10 MPH.  RADAR HAS 

  ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER 

  AMOUNTS HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN NORTHERN CHAVES COUNTY...WITH

  UP TO AN ADDITIONAL INCH LIKELY THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LOW WATER CROSSINGS

  ACROSS RURAL ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS WILL LIKELY FLOOD. SPECIFIC

  STREAMS INCLUDE HERNANDEZ DRAW...SIX MILE DRAW...CHINA DRAW AND

  HUGGINS DRAW. 



* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE...

  OVER RURAL NORTHERN CHAVES COUNTY 



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH

FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.



LAT...LON 3398 10473 3359 10475 3360 10387 3399 10386



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